Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

The history of mankind is his character.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.